Walgreen Company (WAG): Today's Featured Services Underperformer

Walgreen Company was a leading decliner within the services sector, falling 51 cents (-1%) to $48.55 on light volume.

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Walgreen Company ( WAG) pushed the Services sector lower today making it today's featured Services laggard. The sector as a whole closed the day down 1.6%. By the end of trading, Walgreen Company fell 51 cents (-1%) to $48.55 on light volume. Throughout the day, 4.8 million shares of Walgreen Company exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 6.5 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $48.26-$49.24 after having opened the day at $48.97 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $49.06. Other companies within the Services sector that declined today were: Bluefly ( BFLY), down 38.4%, InnerWorkings ( INWK), down 25.3%, dELiA*s ( DLIA), down 19.7%, and Ambassadors Group ( EPAX), down 15.2%.

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Walgreen Co., together with its subsidiaries, operates a network of drugstores in the United States. It provides consumer goods and services, pharmacy, and health and wellness services through drugstores, as well as through mail, and by telephone and online. Walgreen Company has a market cap of $46.07 billion and is part of the retail industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 21.7, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 32.6% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are 10 analysts that rate Walgreen Company a buy, one analyst rates it a sell, and five rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Walgreen Company as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its increase in net income, good cash flow from operations, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, solid stock price performance and growth in earnings per share. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had somewhat disappointing return on equity.